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Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935. [from old catalog] · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 397

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also the evolution of these bone implements andof the decoration with which they are richly adorned enablesthe trained archaeologist to establish corresponding subdivisionsof Magdalenian time. From the uniform character of Palaeolithic art in its highestforms of engraving, painting, and animal… … Fig. 177. Polychrome wall-painting of a wolf from the cavern of Font-de-Gaume. After Breuil. a movement begun in the early Aurignacian. The artist, whoselife brought him into close touch with nature and who evidentlyfollowed the movements both of the individual animals andof the herds for hours at…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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